 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...LIFE. WE live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,...Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest: Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1847 - 426 pages
...mankind. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives...— acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — God. The dead have all the glory of the world.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths — In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; — We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,...thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. BAILEY'S Feslus. 25. Slow pass our days in childhood — every day Seems like a century ; rapidly they... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths — In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; — We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,...thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. BAILEY'S Festus. 25. Slow pass our days in childhood — every day Seems like a century ; rapidly they... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pages
...thoughts, not breaths : In feelings, not in figures on a dial : We should count time by heart throbs : he most lives, Who thinks most : feels the noblest : acts the best." The good chaplain had placed before my Lady Winifred in its true light, the crime she had committed... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...LIFE. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,...Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best ; And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest ; Lives in one hour more than in years do some... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...in deeds', not years', — in thoughts', not breaths',— In feel'ings, not in fig'ures on a di'nl. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,...thinks most, — feels the noblest, — acts the best. 3. I come to bury' Cesar, not to praise' him. 4. It is not the business of virtue. to extir'pate the... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Christianity - 1849 - 446 pages
...reward. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acta the best." We have said that Christianity was proudly contemned when most pure, and is adapted... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1849 - 556 pages
...""" ABT. IX.— REV. HIRAM WITHINGTO^.. .. fr . / Jv f IF it be true, as the poet tells us, that " he most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best," the lamented brother whose name we have placed at the head of this article deserves respectful and... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1851 - 598 pages
...live in deeds, not years, — in thoughts, not breaths, — In feelinys, not in figures on a dial. "We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives "Who thinks most, foels the noblest, acts the best." Had he lived a few moments longer, he would have listened to the... | |
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We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best... 
